Acting
Jean Kent
- Born
- Jun 29, 1921 · Aged 92
- Died
- Nov 30, 2013
- Place of birth
- Brixton, London, England, UK
- Gender
- Female
- Movie credits
- 38
- TV credits
- 15
Also known as (6)
- Joan Mildred Summerfield
- Jean Carr
- Joan Kent
- Joan Summerfield
- Peggy Summers
- ジーン・ケント
Biography
Jean Kent (29 June 1921 - 30 November 2013) was a British film actress. She signed to Gainsborough Pictures during the Second World War. Kent's first good role in Two Thousand Women (1944), playing a stripper who is interned by the Germans. She was a Pacific Islander in Bees in Paradise (1944) with Arthur Askey and was the ingenue in a Tommy Trinder musical Champagne Charlie (1944). The turning point in her career came when she was given a dramatic part in the Gainsborough melodrama film Fanny by Gaslight (1944). The movie established Kent as Gainsborough's backup to Margaret…
